Rosamunde Bordo

Rosamunde Bordo is a visual artist who employs amateur detective work, narrative, and material-based processes. She combines sculpture, textiles, garments, found objects, video, event, writing, and drawing. Recent exhibitions are instalments in an ongoing project that she characterizes as a work of serial and surreal detective “fiction” written through physical space and materials. The project responds to a found collection of postcards addressed to someone named Denise. As Denise becomes increasingly real through artistic interventions and creations, by the same process of invention she is paradoxically more fictitious. Through idiosyncratic lines of research, Bardo explores correspondence, subjectivity, fiction, magic, the boundary between imagination and reality, and the role of art in creating new realities. She is currently based in Vancouver.